Example Sentences
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Ask yourself why so many predatory animals can see perfectly on a moonless night.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026
On a moonless night in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, Anne sits inside a makeshift, two-room house, exhausted after a gruelling shift picking and sorting roses.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024
Osman Taha, a badly wounded officer in the Sudanese military, as he crossed the Nile on a moonless night last November.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024
The best views of the meteors happen when the sky is dark and moonless.
From National Geographic • Apr. 21, 2023
I left the yard, closing the gate behind me noisily, so they could hear me leaving even in the moonless night.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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